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It’s fine to support an app with subscription. It’s absolutely not fine to silence who can’t afford it.

“Are you poor? Then, shut up”



Who’s telling the poor to shut up?


Paid users will get priority over unpaid users in replies as Elon explained.


And? what does that have to do with poor people? The entire economy is run on charging money. Are you saying “Kellogg is telling poor people to starve for charging for cereal!” Or is there something special about twitter for you to complain about? Why are poor people entitled to free twitter? They’re not entitled to free cars or free smartphones or free Netflix or free WhatsApp business accounts or free Fastmail or free UPS or free TV Ads are they?


> entire economy is run on charging money

Explain the existence of libraries, parks, and medicare to me then.


One of the richest people on the planet as far as I can tell.

FTR: I never used twitter




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